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Pyxis with arches (pyxide; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Side)

Pyxis with arches (pyxide; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Side)
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Side

Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Rheims, Musée Historique Saint Rémi

Inv. 978.28387

Ivory

Height: 70mm
Width: 77mm (diameter)

Nativity; hanging curtains. Presentation in the Temple. Flight into Egypt. Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses; seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0232

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), beginning of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the base and of the edge (wooden replacement); lid.
Holes for missing fittings.

Provenance
Said to have been seized during the French Revolution in 1791; taken to a shelter in 1917 (WWI) and returned to the museum in 1921.

Bibliography
P. Tarbé, Trésors des églises de Reims (Reims, 1843), 2nd pl. after p. 154.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 103.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 138, 476, II, no. 232.


Image

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